From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16563 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MULE primer Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 13:13:57 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University : KANTOO Project Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155416 28588 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:10:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20452 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAF28502; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Sep 1998 08:14:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04600 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:14:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA20447 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:14:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 6657 invoked by uid 509); 1 Sep 1998 13:13:59 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 30 X-Newsreader: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.12/Emacs 20.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.2.110.42 Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 904655637 128.2.110.42 (Tue, 01 Sep 1998 15:13:57 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 15:13:57 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16563 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Michael Welsh Duggan writes: > > > > And the XEmacs and Emacs MULEs are subtly and not-so-subtly > > > different, in that the XEmacs stuff works and the Emacs stuff > > > doesn't. (Well.) > > > > Can you be more specific on what doesn't "work"? > > I just can't seem to get a handle on how things work. If I eval > `(rfc2047-decode-string "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCTVUybBsoQik=?=")' with > point in a unibyte buffer, then I get garbage, even if I don't intend > to insert the string. If I'm in a multibyte buffer, things work. So > it seems that if you want to have multibyte chars one place, you > almost have to force all buffers to be multibyte, just to make sure. > (Which is what those `set-buffer-multibyte' things that are littered > over Gnus now is all about.) > > These things just *work* under XEmacs without having to think about > them. If you think that this is a bug, you should report it. This is an odd-numbered Emacs release, and as such each and every bug you encounter should be reported as soon as possible, so that a fix can make it into the subsequent even-numbered release. -- Michael Duggan (md5i@cs.cmu.edu) .